Mayer's 'Paradise' is a nice place to chill out

4:54 PM,
Aug. 21, 2013

Written by

Brian Mansfield
Special for USA TODAY

John Mayer is probably not the guy you want for a relationship role model, but few pop acts disguise pleasure as intimacy so seductively.

Paradise Valley (THREE STARS OUT OF FOUR) may have all the permanence of a summer camp fling, with a motto summed up by a shuffling cover of J.J. Cale's Call Me the Breeze, but that doesn't make his duet with Katy Perry any less enchanting.